September 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Plopp "Original"

Cloetta

I’m fairly satisfied with this chocolate bar, but I’m not sure about the name. It could be that the word “plopp” is some kind of cultural reference in Sweden that I don’t know about. Directly translated it appears to just mean “plop”, like the sound a rock makes when it hits the water. I’m going to assume that the Swedish people do not also use the word plop as a word to describe going number two in the bathroom. I only assume that because when you mix chocolate bars and toilet humour it can get a little dicey.

The bar itself has no relation to a rock being thrown into a lake or any kind of bathroom situation. It’s really just a basic chocolate bar filled with a soft caramel like filling, although I wouldn’t describe it as as a normal caramel and neither does the packaging. On the package it describes it as a “creamy toffee filling”. I don’t know if that’s true either, as a toffee often has a nice burnt sugar flavour. A caramel also has a burnt sugar flavour, but with an added creaminess. The Plopp however seems to be filled with a very sweet goo that doesn’t really have too much flavour at all.

The good news is that the chocolate really dominates over the sweet filling, although that meant that I had a hard time really placing the caramel flavour. Fortunately the chocolate was okay, so it’s not as if it ruined the bar. I’m sure it would have been nice to have a contrasting flavour of caramel and chocolate, but at least the flavour I got was okay. There are much better bars of this type out there, but if you think it might be fun to take a bite out of a Plopp, then at least you won’t be totally disappointed.